Ye Drops New Album ‘Bully’ as a Short Film Amid Troubling Social Media Posts

Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, shared links to unfinished versions of his Bully album earlier this week.

The new music comes via a black-and-white short film, directed by Hype Williams, featuring the rapper’s 9-year-old son, Saint, fighting off a ring full of wrestlers with a mallet. During an interview with Justin LaBoy last month, Ye said Bully was would probably come out on his daughter North’s birthday, June 15.

On Wednesday, Ye tweeted links to several iterations of the still-in-progress project, along with a message stating: “Every version of the Bully film. The first link started acting up, other songs on other versions.” According to Ye’s tweet, there is a “screening version,” a “post Hype version,” and a “post post Hype version.”

However, the drop may have been overshadowed by Ye’s recent string of troubling social media posts this week. Amid a flurry of concerning posts on X, he claimed he was being asked to go to a hospital.

In a clip shared on X, Ye said he’s been “expressing” himself on the platform and it’s been “therapeutic.”

Later in his 2-minute clip, which he shared on Wednesday, Ye suggested that because of his recent actions online, “they” were gonna come for him, “for real.” He then described a moment when some “familiar faces” came knocking at his door and suggested he should go to a “retreat.” According to the rapper, he recalled concluding that the “retreat” was actually some sort of hospital.

Earlier this week, Ye was offered some timely advice from Playboi Carti via X, suggesting the 47-year-old take a vow of silence. “YE STFU,” Carti wrote on X after Ye very publicly took issue with Carti’s reaction to Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS lyric-spurred “FINE SHIT” shoutout, ultimately bringing Carti’s own former romantic partner, Iggy Azalea, into the mix.